"Look honey, I made my new printer a 30 year old printer!" Seriously, that does sound fun. :)
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Ron Lauzon <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, you could connect one to the M100 via the serial port. > > I've worked with these types of printers professionally (mostly the > Paxar/Monarch/Avery and Zebra). Most of the newer ones are WiFi, but > all still have some sort of serial connector. > > The problem with using these types of printers is that they are > designed to be used as label printers. So you just can't treat them > as a tty, dump some text to the printer and have it print. You have > to send them special commands to define a label, define text fields, > etc. then print the label. > > Also, most of those kinds of printers use thermal paper - which is > more expensive (and kinda toxic). > > At my old company, they were getting rid of the old serial-only > printers, so I picked one up and tried it out on my PC. It had very > limited usefulness. > > > On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:59 AM, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would it be possible to use say one of those cheap compact thermal > printers? > > The ones with the two or three inch paper rolls? > > > > > > > > On 9 Feb 2018 4:14 a.m., "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> True story, after helping Ken test his implementation of the epson > >> emulation I had lots of fun feeding the output through imagemagick to > add > >> enough distortion to make it look like even more like the real thing. > >> > >> http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Model_100_RAM_ > Dump_One-Liners > >> > >> — John. > > > > -- > Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org > Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ > Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ > > TRS-80 Pocket Computer 2 - TRS-80 Pocket Computer 4 - TRS-80 Model 100/102 > Some people like to work on old cars. But old computers are cheaper > and don't require a big garage. >
